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enInstant Answershttp://www.technologyreview.com/view/509396/instant-answers/
<p>Portable diagnostic tools could offer a better outlook for TB patients.</p><p>A teardown of the perfect portable medical diagnostic device would make the iPhone seem like rudimentary technology. Like a smartphone, it would combine electronics and software into a seamless user interface for any setting, but it would also, with laboratory-like precision, process human body fluids with fickle mixtures of biological and chemical reagents. It is little wonder that such devices have not yet made it to market.</p>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000Kyanna.Sutton509396 at http://www.technologyreview.comThe Machine That Will Help End TBhttp://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/508576/the-machine-that-will-help-end-tb/
<p>Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get the ancient scourge under control has an unlikely hero: a simple diagnostic test.</p><p>KwaMsane Township sits amid rolling hills in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province. Drive 30 minutes to the west and elephants, giraffes, zebras, and rhinos often stroll by the side of a highway that cuts through a game park. A few kilometers to the east lie sprawling sugarcane fields, which shimmer in the subtropical sun and appear to spill into the Indian Ocean. KwaMsane is beautiful, but it has one of the world’s highest rates of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis, an often fatal form of the disease.</p>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices508576 at http://www.technologyreview.com